Part:BBa_K592101

Yellow Fluorescent Protein (YFP)

Yellow Fluorescent Protein derived from Aequorea victoria GFP. This sequence is cloned from the pZE12-YFP plasmid used by Elowitz (see reference). The original gene was made by the The Yeast Resource Center (YRC) based at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington.

iGEM12_Uppsala_University: If you are looking for a bright yellow fluorescent protein, the improved gene SYFP2 BBa_K864100 is a better choice than this part.

Usage and Biology

This part is useful as a reporter.

The images above show E coli constitutively expressing YFP BBa_K592101 (yellow) and mTagBFP BBa_K592100 (blue) illuminated on a UV table.

[http://2017.igem.org/Team:AFCM-Egypt# Egypt-AFCM Team] tried to improve YFP gel characterization and function at BBa_K592101 regarding its expression by the lac promoter (BBa_K2217017) as a weak constitutive promoter in one composite part to help enhancing YFP expression to characterize non-coding RNA regulatory activity. Part characterization and usage can be found at BBa_K2217023_Experience.

Contribution

Group: Valencia_UPV iGEM 2018
Author: Adrián Requena Gutiérrez
Summary:We have adapted the part to be able to assemble transcriptional units with the Golden Gate method and we have added the degradation tag ssRA LVA. After that, we have characterized the change in the protein degradation due to this tag.
Documentation:

First, we adapted the CDS BBa_K592101 to be used to assemble composite parts using the Golden Gate method, creating BBa_K2656021 and we added the LVA degradation tag, creating BBa_K2656020, our improved part. Next, we performed an experiment to obtain the excitation and emission spectra. To do this, we created the transcriptional unit BBa_K2656112 and we used the parameters of the Table 1:

• BBa_K2656004: the J23106 promoter in its GoldenBraid compatible version from our Part Collection

• BBa_K2656009: the B0030 ribosome biding site in its GoldenBraid compatible version from our Part Collection

• BBa_K2656021: The original part BBa_K592101 compatible with the GoldenBraid assembly method

• BBa_K2656026: the B0015 transcriptional terminator in its GoldenBraid compatible version from our Part Collection

Table 1. Parameters used to obtain the spectra

Parameter	Value
Number of samples	6
Excitation Wavelength measurement range (nm)	[450-550]
Emission wavelenght (nm)	580
Emission Wavelength measurement range (nm)	[500-580]
Excitation wavelenght (nm)	470
Gain (G)	50

Figure 1. YFP emission and excitation spectra

To test the effect of the degradation tag, we designed an experiment with which we measured the increase in protein degradation due to this tag. To perform this experiment, we assembled two composite parts with the same promoter, RBS and terminator:

• BBa_K2656112

• BBa_K2656111:

• BBa_K2656004

• BBa_K2656009

• BBa_K2656020: The original part with the added LVA ssRA degradation tag compatible with the GoldenBraid assembly method

• BBa_K2656026

Once the experiment was carried out, the results were plotted and Figure 2 was obtained, in which we can observe that the growth of the bacteria with both constructions was very similar, while the fluorescence had a clear variation.

Figure 2. Experimental results of the fluorescence comparison experiment between the transcriptional unit with BBa_K2656021 and the one with BBa_K2656020.

These data were optimized with our model and the parameters from Table 2 were obtained. With these parameters it is possible to obtain that the degradation of the protein with the tag is around twice as much as the one without the tag.

Table 2. Optimized values of translation rate, degradation rate and dilution rate from experimental data

Optimized parameters	Values
Translation rate p	For YFP with LVA tag BBa_K2656020: p = 0.4622 min-1 For YFP without LVA tag BBa_K2656021: p = 1.053 min-1
PoI degradation rate dp	For YFP with LVA tag BBa_K2656020: dp = 0.01492 min-1 For YFP without LVA tag BBa_K2656021: dp = 0.0080 min-1
Dilution rate μ	For YFP with LVA tag BBa_K2656020: μ = 0.01166 min-1 For YFP without LVA tag BBa_K2656021: μ = 0.01307 min-1

Group: KU_LEUVEN iGEM 2019
Authors: Zarina Nauryzgaliyeva, Cheska Cadacio

Summary: The fluorescent capacity of YFP (yellow fluorescent protein) was determined in varying salt concentrations. The degree of YFP fluorescence was measured at NaCl concentrations of 0%, 2.5%, 5%, 7.5% and 10%, as 3% is the physiological salt concentration of seawater. The performed experiment and obtained data were relevant to our project, where we envisioned to use marine cyanobacteria as a platform for enzyme production. As these marine bacteria require salty medium and grow in the sea, the stability of potentially secreted proteins was valuable information when projecting the use of such bacteria for industrial biomanufacturing.

Documentation: A kinetic measurement of YFP degradation was done in different salt concentrations over the duration of 3 hours using a spectrofluorometer, with measurements being done every 15 minutes. Numerical results can be seen in Figure 1. It is remarkable that the protein seems to remain quite stable in salt concentrations as high as 10% over a 3 hour period.

Figure 3. YFP activity in the presence of NaCl over time.

References

[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12183631] Elowitz, M. B., A. J. Levine, et al. (2002). "Stochastic gene expression in a single cell." Science 297(5584): 1183-6.

Sequence and Features

Assembly Compatibility:

• 10
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[10]
• 12
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[12]
• 21
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[21]
• 23
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[23]
• 25
  COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[25]
• 1000
  INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[1000]

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